Application for PRAGMA Institutional Membership

Prof. Nguyen Thanh Thuy

Director of High Performance Computing Center

Hanoi University of Technology

thuynt@it-hut.edu.vn

Viet Nam

Hanoi University of Technology

10-14 March, 2008

PRAGMA 14th Workshop

National Museum of Natural Sciences

Taichung, Taiwan

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HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CENTER

Viet Nam

Ha Noi University of Technology

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Outline

Introduction Prior experience in HPC/Grid Middleware

and applications Brief statement of rationale Indication of intentions

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Established in 1956, HUT is situated in the southern section of Hanoi

As key technological university, HUT has at present about 2,500 employees, including 1,500 faculty members

40,000 undergraduate students and 1,200 graduate students annually

HUT IN BRIEF

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Introduction to Hanoi University of Technology (HUT)

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HUT ORGANIZATION

President

ConsultativeCommittees

Vice-Presidents

Faculties (14)School (1) and Institutes (6)

Research Centers (17)

AdministrativeOffices (17)

Corporation (4)

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FACULTIES

1. Faculty of Applied Mathematics-Informatics2. Faculty of Chemical Engineering3. Faculty of Economics and Management4. Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications5. Faculty of Electricity6. Faculty of Engineering Education7. Faculty of Information Technology8. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering9. Faculty of Material Science and Technology10. Faculty of Textile Engineering11. Faculty of In-service Training12. Faculty of Foreign Languages13. Faculty of Social Sciences14. Department of Physical Education

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SCHOOL AND INSTITUTES

Institutes1. Institute of Biological and Food Technology2. Institute of Engineering Physics3. Institute of Environmental Science and

Technology4. Institute of Heat Engineering and Refrigeration5. International Training Institute for Materials

Science6. Institute of Transportation Engineering

School1. 1. Graduate School

2. 2. Hanoi Advanced School of Science and Technology (HAST)

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1. Biomedical Electronics Center 2. Center for R&D of High Technology3. Computer Center4. Network-Information Center5. Chromatography Center6. Corrosion and Protection Research

Center 7. Inorganic Materials Research Center8. High Performance Computing Center9. Kitech-HUT Center 10. Bach Khoa Internet work Security

Center

11. Center of Development and Application of Software for Industry

12. Polymer Center13. Precise Machinery Research Center14. Renewable Energy Research Center15. Materials Science Center16. Multimedia Information,

Communication and Applications Center

17. Center for Research and Consultancy on Management

RESEARCH CENTERS

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An Overview of High Performance Computing (HPC) center

HPC cluster-based system built up in 1999, but the HPC center established on December 31st 2001 with the name High Performance Computing and Applications Center, Hanoi University of Technology,

Mission: Organizing the scientific research and technology transfer

activities in the field of HPC/GC technology. Participating in the governmental IT projects, especially in

the field of HPC/GC. Training scientific researchers on IT, HPC/GC. International cooperation in HPC/GC.

Website: http://hpcc.hut.edu.vn

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Members of the HPC center

Prof. Thanh-Thuy Nguyen, Director Dr. Huu-Duc Nguyen, Vice-Director, Lecturer in IT

School. Dr. Tuan-Anh Ta, Lecturer in IT School Master Trung-Tung Doan, Researcher at HPC. Master Tuan-Tu Tran, Researcher. Engineer Duc-Thanh Do, Lecturer in IT School Engineer Duc-Tung Le, Researcher HPC. Collaborators: Post-graduates, PhD. Students,

Former students (now in France, Canada, Japan, Italia,….)

15 trainees/year x 2 years.

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Our Membership – at 5th anniversary

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Prior experience in HPC/Grid Middleware and Applications

Parallel computing and cluster technology In the early stage, we are focused on a cheap solution for

high performance computing using PC-based cluster. Parallel computing and cluster environments: PVM, MPI,

OpenMP, CONDOR, and PBS Several researches on scheduling, fault tolerance and

single system image. Typical research topics are: data-intensive computing,

failure-aware workflow scheduling. Some open-source cluster middlewares: BKlusware,

BKFaultTolerance, BKOSSIC (Bach Khoa Open Single System Image Cluster) for cluster community in Vietnam

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Prior experience in HPC/Grid Middleware and Applications (2)

Grid Computing Grid environments: Globus Toolkit and G-Lite. Typical research topics are: grid scheduler,

agent-based approaches for grid computing, semantic grid resource specification.

An open-source Grid middleware, called BKGrid, will be used in the National VN-Grid research project (2007-2009).

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Applications

04/10/2315

In collaboration with Institute of Meteorology and Hydraulics; Department of Meteorology and Oceanography, Hanoi National University, Vietnam

Building a Data Grid, Grid Portal for sharing climate data among Weather Forecast centers in Vietnam

In collaboration with Hanoi Pharmaceutical University, Vietnam

Applying Grid Computing for discovering new medicine based on DOCKing

in collaboration with Institute of Engineering Physics, HUT, Vietnam

Molecular Dynamic Simulation in Engineering Physics

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Domestic collaborations

VN-Grid National Research Project 2007-2009 partners: Institute of Information Technology (IOIT) Hanoi, IOIT HCM City, Hanoi National University, LeQuyDon Engineering University.

Grid Special Interest Group in VINAREN organization (Vietnam Research Education Network)

HCM City University of Technology HUT Institutions: School of Information

Technology, Library and Information Network Center.

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International collaborations

National Center of High Performance Computing, Taipei, Taiwan (since 2006)

Center for Development of Advanced Computing, India (Since 2003. There will be a SuperComputer at HPC-HUT as grant of India to Vietnam soon)

Doson Grid School TEIN-2 Project (HUT is NOC-VN and NOC-

HN) Asia Pacific Advanced Networking (APAN)

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Brief statement of Rationale

Contribution of computing resource (initial configuration) Head node: 2 x 1Ghz,

512Mb RAM Computing nodes: 3 x

(3.0Ghz, 1Gb RAM) Storage capacity: 150Gb Bandwidth

6Mb via commercial internet

135Mb via TEIN-2

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Brief statement of Rationale

Involvement in Grid Middleware development Fault tolerance module Single System Image for Grid Economic-based scheduler Semantic grid resource discovery.

Involvement in Grid Application development Geo-Grid for Disaster Management. Bio-Grid for Docking.

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Brief statement of Rationale

Involvement in PRAGMA activities Attending the PRAGMA workshops regularly Hosting a PRAGMA workshop in the future Bridging PRAGMA collaboration to other GC/HPC

institutions in Vietnam.

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Indication of Intentions

We strongly believe that joining PRAGMA would give us a precious opportunity for: Receiving the state-of-the-art grid technology A much better computational environment for

experimenting and conducting grid applications What can we contribute to promoting life science HPC

and GC communities Participation to development of grid applications in life

science for Vietnam and the region Sharing knowledge and experiments on deploying grid

technologies in related areas Computing resource: Supercomputer from C-DAC (128

Processors, 2TFlops, 256 GB RAM, 36TB HDD).

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High Performance Computing Center, HUT

Thank you for your kind attention!